Tachibana Elisabeth

Tachibana Elisabeth, more commonly known as Tachibana Ella is one of current candidates for AKB0048's 155th generation.

Appearance
Elisabeth has long vavy red hair and green eyes. She is short for her age and often mistaken to be few years younger than she really is. She has pale skin.

Due to coming from very rich family she mostly owns expensive and elegant clothes (mostly skirts and dresses) but doesn't really like to wear them, she prefers comfortable and simple clothes.

Personality
Ella is a quiet and polite girl who is unsure on how to casually talk to others or show her emotions as she never had real friends. She grew up away from a lot of information that is completely common to other members and because of that she often has trouble following their conversations. For those two reasons she is very nervous in conversations and always worries that she'll say something wrond. She is used to following the rules due to the way she was raised by her father but is also very curious and sometimes shows a rebellious side even though she usually tries to avoid conflict. She likes to learn new things and believes that having knowledge from various topics and points of view is very important in someone's life.

Skills
Ella was taught self-defence since she was young so she knows some material arts. While she enjoys singing and dancing she has to practice them a lot as she didn't have much chance to do so on her home planet that is under entertainment ban.

Ella has very little knowledge of things related to technology such as cell-phones and computers as she was never allowed to use them when she was growing up. Due to that she needs to ask for help from other members as she doesn't really understand how they work and it takes her very long to learn how to use them. She also doesn't understand many references to pop-culture as she never had contact with those things until leaving her home to join AKB0048.

Ella is quite intelligent and loves to learn so she does quite well at school.

Life Before 00
Ella grew up with her father and older half-brother as her mother died soon after her birth. Due to her father being one of the most influential people on Currostar Ella always lived life full of everything however she never felt much love from her father or brother. She lived in the biggest and one of the richest cities of the planet - Yumemachi - where most of the people who have high influence on Currostar (and usually also with DES and DGTO) live. She was trained to act like an obedient young lady who had to do everything as her father says. The only contact with people her age were other kids from families like hers but she couldn't consider any of them as friend. Due to Currostar being one of planets under entertainment ban Ella never heard music or knew about other forms of entertainment. She never used computers, cell-phones or any other technology either (she knew about TV but the only thing that was ever playing on it were news). She considered her life quite boring but it was the only life she knew and she never imagined that it could ever be more interesting.

However despite usually being quite obedient and listening to her father Ella was always very curious girl. She always read as many books as she could find and liked to look around the town to find something interesting. One day when she was 10 she got very close to a fence about which her father had warned her - telling her she should never go to the other side. There she met a boy in his late teens/early twenties who was dressed unlike anything she ever saw before. He wasn't wearing fancy clothes like all the other people she has ever seen, instead he wore some very old and dirty clothes. Never seeing something like that in her life Ella was very interested. The man was very kind to her and made her promise she wouldn't tell anyone that she saw him. Ella agreed and eventually ended up meeting with that man a lot learning that his name is Hinata. He told her that behind the fence people who are poor and barely have enough food to survive live and also showed her videos of AKB0048. That was the first time she heard music and Ella was amazed by it. From Hinata she eventually learned what the real state of Currostar is - there is a small part of people that are very rich and hold all power why everyone else lives in huge poverty. However when Ella listened to his story despite knowing that their lives are terrible she always thought that there were many treasures they had that Currostar elite didn't posses. They had families and friends and they could listen to music in secret. Ella continued meeting with Hinata for about 3 years and he would often show her AKB0048 songs or give her books that were banned and Ella loved the fact that she was learning more about world around her, even though she hated that her family was one of supporters of DGTO tolitarian regime. Ella had to make sure that her father or brother never figured that out.

Ella's meetings with Hinata ended in April SC0126 when an attack on the entertainment-hide out happened. DES attacked WOTA supporters that lived near Ella's city and Hinata was one of many people that died in the attack. It was then that Ella found out that her father wasn't only supporter of DGTO but was one of the most influential people within it and was the one who order the attack (as well as many other DES attacks on other planets): Ella at that time decided that she'll one day escape that life and attend the auditions as well.

Shortly after that she was able to find out about 155th generation auditions and secretly filmed herself singing and sent application. She was very happy to learn that she passed but was in front of new problem - she had to escape from home without her father and brother noticing. The date of her flight to auditions was the day that she had to attend a big party and she realised it would be the easiest to escape while she pretended she had to go to toilet. However she couldn't have to big bag with her so she could only take small neccessary things with her and no extra clothes - she had to leave in the dress she wore for the party - something she disliked knowing that dress will atract a lot of attention. Ella successfully escaped from the party and got to auditions however her dissapearance was noticed and reported quickly meaning Ella is still in fear that someone could find her and she'd be forced to return home.

Relationships
|-|150th Generation =

Inoue Megumi - Sempai.

Takanashi Yukari - Sempai.

Hoshimiya Aoi - Sempai.

Hoshikawa Rei - Sempai.

Ito Hotaru - Sempai.

Hikami Yumeko - Sempai.

Itano Tomorin - Sempai.

Samuikaze Ran - Sempai.

Harune Diamond - Sempai.

Taiyamoto Akano -Sempai.


 * -|151st Generation =

Asahina Miru - Sempai.
 * -|152nd Generation =

Itano Tomoko - Sempai.

Aozora Kokone - Sempai.

Honda Hibiki - Sempai.

Tsubasa Diana - Sempai.

Makori Ririka - Sempai.

|-|153rd Generation =

Mion Espoir - Sempai.

Emily Silver - Sempai.

Ryuuzaki Miyoko - Sempai.

Nakahara Monica - Sempai.

Masaki Amarie - Sempai.

Amaya Jia - Sempai.

|-|153.5th Generation =

Akiba Airi - Sempai.

Hatsune Hikari - Sempai.

Ikeda Itsuki - Sempai.

|-|154th Generation =

Kasumi Yuuna - Sempai.

Ayana Elise - Sempai.

Kobayashi Griselda - Sempai.

MoYoung Marian - Sempai.

Itou Haruki - Sempai.

Tomone Kaoru - Sempai.

|-|154.5th Generation =

Nishimura Karin - Sempai.

Murasaki Aoi - Sempai.

Nagase Yuuri - Sempai.

Koizumi Ayaka - Sempai.

Shiratama Mayu - Sempai.

Natsuki Hotaru - Sempai.

LaLa Rue - Sempai.

|-|155th Generation =

Tobina Riko - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Kumotani Julie - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Chiba Miku - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Mizu Kaguya - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Lee Hana - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Chizu Snow - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Yokoyama Asuna - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Ogawa Norah - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Kamiyama Mako - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Sengawa Kagome - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Kaname Reina - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Kawano Namia - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Yozora Yoko - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Arisugawa Mikoto - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Amuro Yuhane - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Angelica Bianchi - Fellow Kenkyuusei.


 * -|Successors =

Akimoto Sayaka the 15th - Sempai.

Yokoyama Yui the 13.5th - Sempai.

Takahashi Minami the 7th - Sempai.

Kuramochi Asuka the 13th - Sempai.

Sashihara Rino the 11th - Sempai.

Shimazaki Haruka the 11th - Sempai.

Kodama Haruka the 8th - Sempai.

Ikuta Erika the 11th - Sempai.

Eguchi Aimi the 4th - Sempai.

Hirate Yurina the 7th - Sempai.

Nakai Rika the 15th - Sempai.

Minegishi Minami the 7th - Sempai.

Matsui Jurina the 8th - Sempai.

Watanabe Mayu Type 5 - Sempai.


 * -|Staff =

Motomiya Hikari - AKB0048 manager and producer.

Kuroki Erika - AKB0048 presenter.

Hashimoto Ayumi - AKB0048 dance teacher.

Akiyama Tamotsu - AKB0048 dorms' janitor.

Akamine Kazuto - AKB0048's vocal instructor.

Shirokami Yuki - AKB00480's designer.


 * -| Family =

Tachibana Hiroki - Ella's half brother. Two of them were never really close as Hiroki was never really kind to his sister. Now he is very angry that Elisabeth left her home to join AKB0048.

Tachiba Eichiro - Ella's father. He never seeemed to care much about his daughter but he raised her as someone who should be obedient lady who does everything the way he orders her too. As he is one of more influential people inside DGTO he is strongly against Elisabeth joining AKB0048.


 * -| Others =

Arisugawa Hinata - The person who told Ella about AKB0048. He was the one who gave Elisabeth nickname Ella and the first person she considered friend. She was devastated to learn of his death and even more after she learned that her father ordered the attack in which he died.